All posts tagged "arena stage"
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Review: The Elephant Room
Part magic show, part witty performance piece, part hilarious guy-silliness, The Elephant Room is the theatrical equivalent of 3 a.m. in the basement ''rec room'' with your...
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Review: Red
Paint splatters and spills like blood in Red, soaking skin and canvas alike as an aging artist and his young assistant toil in a Manhattan...
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Red at Arena Stage
It’s become so difficult to get tickets to Arena Stage’s production of the Tony-winning Red, the theater has already extended the run an extra week...
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Get your tickets to Red at Arena Stage now!
It’s become so difficult to get tickets to Arena Stage’s production of the Tony-winning play Red, the theater has already extended its run an extra...
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Big Hair
After six years on Broadway, national tours and a splashy big-screen adaptation, how much charm could be left in the Charm City of the musical...
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Fiddling with History
What would Julie do? Danny Scheie asks himself that periodically, referring to Julie Andrews. ''She's a good barometer. She always behaves really, really well.'' So...
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The Normal Heart national tour will launch at Arena Stage in June 2012
Arena Stage will launch the national tour of the 2011 Tony Award-winning production of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, to coincide with AIDS 2012, the...
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Shows of Shows
There's something truly troubling about Trouble in Mind. A half-century ago, Alice Childress was set to become the first African-American female playwright on Broadway. But...
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Walking Wounded
You can't be blamed for balking at the idea of seeing Ruined, a play that confronts head-on the mass-rape of civilian women by combatants during...
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Jewish Conflict
You don’t go to the theater for silence. It’s not a place for meditation or prayer, after all -- at least not if it’s a...
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Theatre J’s The Chosen
Aaron Posner directs his adaptation of this beloved play based on the novel by Chaim Potok about two boys, two fathers and two very different...
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Outtake: Edward Albee on why critics should read plays
In creating a final cut of this week’s Edward Albee cover story, we had to lose a few passages for space. One of those was...
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Who's Afraid of Edward Albee?
Molly Smith remembers well her first encounter with the work of Edward Albee. ''The Zoo Story is one of the first plays I ever read,''...
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Party Games
There are, at times, movie adaptations of a play so potent, they threaten every live performance that follows. Take, for example, Richard Brooks's Cat on...
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Let Me Down Easy — Final Weekend!
Well known to some from NBC’s The West Wing, Anna Deavere Smith is a triple threat actress/playwright/author. But she’s also a storyteller and historian, capturing...
